(scary violin music) (wind blowing) (flutes joining in) - Hey y'all, Scott here. I know what it looks like. I wasn't looking for a pumpkin, I was looking for grass. Oh, wow. Okay, fine. I couldn't take it anymore. Just yesterday I was doing a live. (gaming music) I've had enough of this. And I decided to finally buy a pumpkin. Grass, let's look around here. - Welcome to the Lesler Pumpkin Orchard, where pumpkins are our specialty and orchards are a close second. - Whoa, vegan Terry Lesler running a non-permitted pumpkin patch. - Can you name a more vegan crime? - Well, been a gourd user for awhile looking to make an upgrade. - Never bought a pumpkin before? What are you carving
during the fall, then? - Leaves and watermelons. - Well, we do offer conversion therapy. - Nah, I think I'm good. I'll buy that one, I'll buy that one. That is a nice-ass pumpkin. - Oh, well, this is just a rental. - Nah, I'm looking to own. - You really think you're ready to go in raw and own a pumpkin? It's a lot of responsibility. Maybe you should start with
a goldfish or something. - No, ever since I was a kid, I pledged that by the time
I'm 17, I would own a pumpkin. I'm 23 now and I've gotten nothing done over the past six years because it's been at the
top of my to-do list. Let's get this over with. - Perfect. We'll do a background check. You'll be the first unit on a pumpkin. - Yes, I'll pick that one, the orange one. - You want the two-year warranty? - I hate the metric system. How many hours is that? - Hey, man, I run a
pumpkin patch, not a clock. Alright, just tell me when. (pumpkin plopping) - That's good. (thudding) - Alrighty, so here's
going to be your paperwork. - Can I have my ID back? - And your passport, mugshot, and watch. You take care of that thing. - Good stuff. You are currently looking at
a registered pumpkin owner. Sure, I have dabbled in owning foam decoratory pumpkins in the past, but those I would just throw out after the season was over. These ones, completely different. (hammer thudding) This one's real. I asked if there was any pumpkin
regulations in the county. I can't quarter it in a time of peace. I said, I didn't want it after that, but I already took the cellophane off. My first real pumpkin. And to celebrate, I decided to invite all pumpkin users in the area. Throw a bit of a pumpkin party. I hope that isn't slang. Terry should be happy to
see how this pumpkin's doing and, plus, four years from now, I'll be throwing my first party. I think I'm ready to throw
another one right now. I think I'm finally
ready to present myself in front of the pumpkin demographic. Dammit. Okay, maybe I
should make this more of a half pumpkin, half Halloween party. I don't want to make an ass out of myself in front of the pumpkin fandom, so I'll distract them by making it more of a Halloween party. All I have to do is come
up with a scary costume. I have had this list for over four hours and I've never acted upon it. I could go with somebody who's
owned a pumpkin before... My cover will be blown. I could go with somebody
who ate a (beep) Wii. Maybe next year. Found the scariest one. Of course, I could also
go as memory card talker, but I go as that year round. I'm just going to need some
materials for this costume. Gay customers also bought memory cards. I can go as two things. (beep) (high pitched drum sound) (memory cards clattering) Happy Halloween. What do you do when you're
playing a video game but you have to get up and exist? Well, I can leave the
thing on for days on end until you're ready to
not do anything again, but what if you have a power outage, the cord gets unplugged, you have this nervous tic
where you just have to go and ruin everything. Your game gets reset and you have to restart everything from the very beginning. I can't think of anything worse. Anything. You have to be protecting in case something like this occurs. So bring in the memory cards, the gaming contraceptive. Saving your progress in a game is something we all take
for granted nowadays. Remember when games didn't save at all? The only way to beat them was to play them all in one go. From start to finish,
you had to experience what it's like to be depressed. Some games started using passwords, get to a certain point in the game, write down the password it gave you, then next time you boot it up, bam, right back where you left off. But right after they made
the English language, they went, oh man, they're
going to make Metroid, aren't they? Zeros, capital o's, lowercase o's, one's, capitalized lowercase L's. Sure, in the game itself,
they're distinct enough, but when you're writing down a password, you'll probably just use whatever your brain thinks will be funny. Why couldn't God make
the "o" look like this? And these passwords could be ass-long. I didn't know these many spaces existed. Sometimes you'd get
passwords with icons to use. That immediately makes things a problem for the artistically challenged out there. What are you talking about?
That's a squiggle, not a Sigma. I want to pick up where
you left off in games. You either had to keep the game
console running indefinitely or something you have to
explain to your parents. I don't want them thinking
I play Mega Man IV. What is this? Coordinates for a bomb. What kind of passwords are these? You try to get into a club and they ask, "What's the password?" (arcade game music) C, 7, 6, 4. Something had to
change because neither one of these methods were particularly ideal. I'd rather have passwords
than not have passwords but I'd rather have blood
than not have blood. Doesn't mean I like blood. (doorbell ringing) Talking about memory cards, one sec. (door slams) So in came The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System featuring a battery
built into the cartridge which allowed it to save your data, which became a luxury for many games. If your NES game came with
the ability to save like this, you knew the company
cared so hard about you. The following generation,
saving this way became more of a standard across the board. Most of Nintendo's Super Nintendo titles had battery saves built in. Many third-party games
still use passwords. It took awhile to catch up on the Genesis, but by the end of this generation, being able to save your game was the hip thing to do. But here's the issue, there's a reason not all games adopted the battery to
save data to the cartridge. It costs money to do that and some people can't
stomach supporting Duracell. Each game would need a battery backup and that battery eventually runs out after a couple decades, so eventually there'll be no evidence of me playing Mario World
the night of some murder and I have soft spot for alibis. Plus, with the industry quickly shifting from using cartridges to CDs, you couldn't really
feasibly save data to this. I mean battery, CD, battery, CD. It's not something I can change. What if you could save the
data to something else? (door squeaking) Oh, (beep) I thought
you were another door. - Am I the first to arrive? (light staccato music) - Yes. - So I brought some
pumpkins for discussing. This one it's orange and
this one's really orange. - You know, I was thinking
we could make this a half pumpkin party, half
actual Halloween party. - What the hell is Halloween? - Just step outside,
change into a scary costume and you'll be fine. (door slamming) What are you, a meat eater? - A person. - Oh yeah, I can tell by the hat. Well, feel free to not say
anything until the others arrive. - What the hell? I give you a pumpkin for well under a year and you turn it into memory cards? - No, those are just memory
cards for the GameCube. - For the GameCube? - Here, let me explain. Memory cards gave you
the ability to save games to a choking hazard. I mean, it made perfect sense. With these, you wouldn't
have to worry about cramming a save feature into the game itself. Just force the consumer to deal with it. This way, no kid had an excuse. If they were on a console
with a memory card, yup, they had a save feature. Unless he didn't own a memory card. I think we've all been in that situation, you own a console for a bit, but you don't have a memory card, so you just kind of
played the game you had, but you can't save, so hey, let's just keep playing
from the beginning. Of course, that's how most NES games were, but I owned a GameCube and didn't get a memory card
until a couple months in. I am an expert on watching the opening to Battle for Bikini Bottom. Once you actually got a card, oh my god, my options skyrocketed. I can save? You know, memory cards
actually first appeared on the Neo Geo AES. Now I give a (beep). You could save your data onto it and then bring it to a
Neo Geo arcade cabinet, plug it in, pick up where you left off, which is a killer plus
to using memory cards. You can bring them anywhere. Your save data can always be with you. Make a necklace out of it. There's a lot of memories you
can dig up on one of these, especially if they were
never owned by you. Look at all these game saves, preserved for us all
to point and laugh at. I mean the term "memory card" can mean two different things. It saves game files, sure, but it also saves memories. This was my childhood
GameCube memory card. Yeah, I got the MadCatz 16x, not the official Nintendo-produced one. These came with carrying cases. (clicking) So much better. Oh man, I wish each pea had a sock. Owning a MadCatz memory
card should have put me on track to buy a Thrasher shirt, but, here we are. This was what my mom bought after I sort of begged for a memory card, so then I didn't have to watch that damn opening cut
scene for the 67th time. And I think we really hit it
out of the park first try. 16X, what does that mean? It has it, and a lot of it. There was more than
enough space on this one to store any and all saved data I could ever dream of. I can't believe I didn't get stuck with the 1X, 59 blocks of storage. I would be disgusted if
I knew how much that was. Some game consoles refer
to storage as "blocks." I think they were trying
to simplify things, but honest to God, it
made even more no sense. You see your typical memory storage terms. Just say megabytes, no mom hears "blocks" compared to megabytes and goes, "Ah." I have this many blocks remaining. What does that mean? I could say you were better off buying the official memory cards made by the console
manufacturers themselves, but why would I? These aren't like third-party controllers where if they're cheaper,
you can really feel it. Ah, this one's made of gum. Memory cards you cram in the console and never think of again. But this one looks blue and smells funny. You can get by with any
type of memory card, that's the beautiful thing. These brands are all of equal value. Sometimes memory cards would come with games like with Animal Crossing. You got a GameCube memory
card free of charge. Makes sense considering Animal Crossing required a ton of space to save. So you pretty much needed
a memory card just for it. It's an Animal
Crossing-themed memory card. Just like how I have an
Animal Crossing-themed thigh. It's a sticker, that's it. You can deem anything to be
Animal Crossing this way, but I appreciate the sentiment. I'm surprised there weren't more special edition memory cards. I mean, they existed. Here's Spider-man
crawling out of his grave. However, most of the time
you just have to choose between cards of different
size capacities and colors, but just the fact different
colors were offered really baffles me as to why there weren't more grave digging options. So, cool (beep), right? - I don't know. Is it
really worth neglecting your pumpkin for so long
that it can save, guys? - I can't help it the pumpkin dies. All the bees flew south for the winter. Pollination's over. - Wait, this isn't the right pumpkin. - Oh, yeah, it's over there. (hand slapping) - Looking good, got
any plans for this guy? - I was thinking we could bob for apples, but with this instead. (doorbell ringing) Or you can feel free
to not saying anything. (water splashing) Got a pumpkin? - Oh God, we were supposed
to bring pumpkins? - I was hoping the invitation would be cryptic in a good way. - Wait. (pumpkins thudding) Never mind. - What are you supposed to be? - I was going for person, but everybody's going as that this year. - Oh, come on. - I thought I'd channel my inner Wendy's employee for my costume. - You are a Wendy's employee. - Is it really that convincing? - I have not heard the word
pumpkin since 67 words ago. - I can definitely swing the same pumpkin. Say this one. - [Scott] Now with the
boom on these things, many companies had some
kind of revelation. They needed to innovate
every possible thing. You know how some shoes
have software updates now? For the second Dreamcast, the memory cards for this system were dubbed at VMU's, visual memory units. They were memory cards, sure, but they had a screen and buttons and were their own mini game console. Of course, with that screen that meant in multiplayer games you could see things that
were exclusive to you. It's like it could tell
me where the antidote was and then you could unplug the VMU, take it on the go, and
play little mini games. It's amazing this idea
wasn't ever fully replicated. It's pretty cool, but
it's pretty worthless, so that's pretty much why. Is this really necessary? This is just another battery
you have to worry about and what's the point when you look over at the PlayStation 2 and that used a (beep)
saltine for its memory card and everybody in the
world owned two of them. The closest the console got
to replicating this idea of your own personal screen had Mario Tennis on it, I'll give it that. - Whoa, I didn't know
pumpkins could save game data. - They're truly God's favorite. (doorbell ringing) (door squeaking) - What are you, a doorway pirate? - No, I'm Dex. - I thought he was depressed. - Whoa, there. I'm going to need to see some fruit. - How's this? - No. - This? - (grunting) - This? - Language. - This? - Yeah, it's a
(beep) pumpkin party. Get in. So memory cards pretty
much stayed ass boring, but with the original Xbox, they started to become
ass-boring and obsolete. That system had a hard drive built-in, which meant you didn't need a memory card. The game saved to the system. Now you could buy a memory card if you wanted to back up your saves or bring your save files
over to a separate Xbox. But who cares? You don't need a memory
card to save games. This is a (beep) party. I never used memory cards to bring my saved data over
from console to console, I only used them to save game data, so the idea that the Xbox
saved it all to the system meant that an Xbox memory card existing is something scholars still don't get. Then with the Xbox 360,
they continued this trend but also allowed for the
hard drive to be expanded, but you could still buy memory cards. Xbox 360 memory cards are some of the most worthless flicks of
garbage I've ever seen. What's the point? Each 360 had more than
enough storage to save games and if you needed more storage, then why spend all this money
on a dinky-ass memory card when you could invest
in a beefier hard drive that could save that much more. Look at these card sizes. 64 megabytes, 256
megabytes, 512 megabytes. These could hold a flight, maybe. To be fair, this one comes
with a digital copy of Worms and a carrying case that
fits on a key chain. Maybe that makes sense? I get the ideas so you
can bring your files over to a friend's house, but this was the era of online gaming. It's obvious this was all fading away. I mean the PlayStation 3
and Wii didn't have them. Sure, you can use GameCube
memory cards on Wii when playing GameCube games. So some third-party memory
cards said "for Wii" on them, when in reality, they
were just for GameCube and were preying on the people
who didn't know any better. Not me, I'm immune. (doorbell ringing) And what are you supposed to be? - [Man With Mirror] You. - Whoa, whoa, whoa, not today. - That's not a pumpkin. (Man with Mirror grunts) - [Man With Mirror] When
I saw the invitation, I thought the P said P,
the U said I, the M said N, the P said E, the K said A. - Listen, I don't want
to hear any excuses. - [Man With Mirror] I'm fruit blind. - Can't see fruit. - That poor bastard. - You can't be here with that. - [Man With Mirror] I have a permit. (light music) (beep) fruit blindness. - [Scott] It was obvious
things were moving in the direction of storage
built into the consoles rather than relying on external carts. But wouldn't you know, at
least the PlayStation portable kept the dream alive. (beep) I thought it was a fingernail. Why does a handheld
system need a memory card? Same problem with the PlayStation Vita. Early models didn't have any
storage on it, any at all. And even though the
games are now on cards, you still needed a memory card. And the PlayStation handheld
memory cards are proprietary, they only work on these specific devices. You can't even use a PSP memory card on a Vita or vice versa. They were expensive, too. Why couldn't they just
use standard SD cards? The Nintendo 3DS did and now the games mostly just saved to the cartridges themselves, which made things crazy simple. You could take a 3DS game you
were playing on one system, pop it in another, and boom, the save data is all
there and accounted for. Why can't everybody be like Nintendo 3DS game save files. What do you guys say we pop
some of these suckers in, get an insight into the previous owners? - Wouldn't be a pumpkin
without a background check. - I always wanted to
tour a pumpkin studio. - [Man With Mirror] It's (beep) freezing. - [Scott] Let's see what we can discover. First off, my own memory card as a child. Look at this, with so
many blocks to spare, too. Yep, I went through a heavy Nickelodeon games phase growing up, but we have all the usual
suspects here as well. Pac-Man Fever and me doing nothing for the first 23 years of my life. How old am I? But this one actually came with a used copy of
Luigi's Mansion I bought. The guy just forgot his memory card was inside the case. See, a lot of game cases come with inserts for memory cards, much like how most cups
come with containers. Let's pop this one in here and by now let's check out this one, too. What? Huh, that's odd. They're basically the same thing. - Yeah. Like uncle and daughter. - Those are my two biggest fears. - [Man With Mirror] Mine
are isolation and windows. - [Scott] Okay, well this one's got to have something good on here. Look at it, this one has more in common with a bookmark than
it does a memory card. Wind Waker's save file,
we got to check this out. Must be code for the name Jim. This one's got to be good. There's nothing but Odama? - These aren't pumpkins, are they? - What was your first tell? - I knew it, I knew it. Every time a pumpkin
claims to save GIS data, it's always a scam. - How could I let this happen twice? - Right when we found these work pumpkins, I knew something was up. - [Man With Mirror] Yeah, guys. Let's get out of here. (door slamming) (door locking) (scary music) - It's probably just a rat. The X-Box 360 surely
has some terrible stuff on the memory card. Nothing haunted, mostly christened. Let's just plug it into the Xbox 360 DS. Where's the memory card port? They took out memory card
support in later 360 models. That's my Halloween costume next year. (screaming) - You know what, I don't care. I'm going to show this
ghost what I'm made of. - [Man With Mirror]
Don't harass the ghost. They don't even know what harassment is. (yelling) - Oh, not my leg day legs.
I need them for leg days. - His hand is bleeding. - His eyes aren't blinking. - His lips are smiling. - [Man With Mirror] His dead is showing. - Great, now I'm never going to be the first of five to die. - [Scott] PlayStation 2, for God's sakes, give me something good here. (computer beeping) We may be getting haunted,
but I'm still disappointed. Some of these things are so old, they're bound to lose their spunk. What's more fun than looking
through a memory card and seeing all these
games that were played and all those cool little
icons or animations made specifically for
the memory card walls and getting (beep) by ghosts? It's a really cute aspect of gaming. (scary music) - [Man With Mirror] This
reminds me of being outside. - That's it, we need to
get this thing outside. - The clouds, right? - Exactly. - The only way we're going
to be able to do that is to stun it with something. Stun it with something big, bold, orange. You son of a bitch. - I'm going to stun it,
Rex, you throw it outside. (pumpkin thudding) (game thudding) Take off your costume. - (beep) This is a room? - Okay. No, thanks for
coming, it was a fun party. - And only one death. - Listen, I'm sorry about... - Nope, not hearing it. That pumpkin had a whole being
a pumpkin in front of it. You know how old she was in pumpkin years? - Oh, that was a pumpkin? Thought you used a napkin. - What's fruit blindness like? - It's really funny, until
you have to identify fruit. - That pumpkin had it coming. It couldn't even be a watermelon. - You take that back. - Should we take him to a hospital? - No, he's already dead. And I've got to say, for
someone owning a pumpkin? Not impressed. - It's not supposed to impress you, it's supposed to evolve you. - It's a (beep) pumpkin and destroying was the only way to stop possessed memory cards, Terry. I never wanted to be in
the Phantom, anyways. I found one bad person,
that means it's the worst. I'm going to bed. I've been practicing
being angry in my sleep. (ominous music) (ominous music continues getting louder) (moaning and shrieking) Every Friday night, I'm so sick of... (shouting) We kicked the Davids out of you, what's your problem? (game clanking) Wait, he's just sitting there like a pumpkin. No, I'm not going to let my Wii get possessed by a pumpkin. Of all fruits, pumpkins need to be eaten, not enjoyed. You have them for two months
out of the entire year and then we're back to watermelons. No, okay, I'm glad I got owning a pumpkin out of the way, because it'll
bump my credit score up. For now, no, we need to end this, regardless of what body you possessed. I ate the (beep) Wii. My own possessed memory cards took my Halloween party hostage and then the pumpkin I
used to knock the cards out repossessed the Wii the cards were in. Busy day. I wonder who owned these
memory cards in the past, they may have died, but maybe that pumpkin taking things over might've played God and
reverse-engineered their souls. They might be back in business. (thunder) Ghosts deserve some praise. It takes a lot of courage to be dead. I might've been a bit
hard on the pumpkins. They remind me a bit of memory cards. This one's orange, too. What a pumpkin means to those guys, memory cards mean to me. They're just such fun
little experiences to have with or without possession. And that's how you know you
truly care about something. If you don't need possession to enjoy it. (light gaming music)
climbs through window
"Let's get out of here!"
This man is a genius comedy writer
So for those keeping score at home, Wendy's Employee died but he was murdered so there's a good chance he'll be alright, the haunted memory cards have resurrected Chet Shaft and Steel Wool, and Rex is gonna die four years from now, nine days after Scott throws his first party
also Scott canonically sleeps on the desk
Before I started watching the episode, I wondered how Scott managed to get 20 minutes out of talking about memory cards.
I am so confused
I love it
Every time I thought this vid hit its climax, it just keep going. Loved it. The opening scene had a lot of fast, good humor, the scene before Wendy's employee got there where Scott tossed the pumpkin in the tub of water was...anxiety-inducing, to say the least, and all-in-all everyone was funny. Very good video.
chet shaft is back bois
How do his bits just keep getting better and better? I love timing and chemistry he has with his friends on screen.
Even though the humor was a BIT too fast paced and out there for me to actively love it, I still really enjoyed the extra lore and attention to detail put into it, as well as the prospect of Chet and Steel Wool returning. That's the main thing I enjoy of these special episodes right now.
The callback to eating a wii is so brilliant.